Maritzburg United coach Fadlu Davids made a surprising comment this week, suggesting that this current Mamelodi Sundowns side was the 'best team' in the history of South African football.
It was a bold statement and opens up an interesting debate that can be thrashed out on a number of levels.
Speaking ahead of his team's Nedbank Cup semi final against The Brazilians at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Sunday, rookie coach Davids said: "We're playing the best team in the history of Sundowns, the best team in the history of South Africa."
Certainly, and unequivocally, Sundowns are the best team in South Africa at the moment, probably by a long shot.
Strength in depth in all areas, an astute coach in Pitso Mosimane and a seemingly never-ending ambition to win titles are the keys to their success.
The cynics will say they have the biggest bank balance as well, which is certainly true, but money is no guarantee of success.
However, an argument could be made that the team that won the CAF Champions League in 2016 was better. That sounds like an obvious statement, but given the money they have splashed on players since then, perhaps not so.
If you look at the teams that started 2016 and started 2018 for Sundowns, in terms of goalkeeping and defence, they are pretty similar, perhaps even a little stronger now.
However, in the midfield and up-front they are arguably weaker, partly because they have been victims of their own success, and also because they do not have the same combination play.
Bongani Zungu, who left before they won the Champions League, had success at Vitoria Guimaraes that turned the spotlight on Sundowns as a viable market for overseas clubs and a year later they lost Keagan Dolly.
That is two quality individual performers taken out of the side, but it also ruined their famed 'CBD' frontline that contained Dolly, Leonardo Castro and Khama Billiat.
Billiat has wanted to follow suit for some while now and while he cannot be accused of giving anything less than 100 percent, his 'will he, won't he?' move has affected when and how he is used.
Castro was not the same player after the departure of Dolly and he too has since left for Kaizer Chiefs, where things have not really improved for him.
Keeping Sundowns at the top is going to be hard for Mosimane, not because he doesn't know how, but due to the number of his top players that will leave in the coming months.
Tau will head for Europe, that is virtually a foregone conclusion, while Billiat will exit also. Themba Zwane is another who will be attracting suitors following his fine form.
The trio have scored 23 league goals for Sundowns this season, a number that will be tough to replace in a single transfer window. Defenders Wayne Arendse and Thabo Nthethe are 33-years-old and likely to be phased out, while regulars Tebogo Langerman, Ricardo Nascimento and Anele Ngcongca are all also past 30.
Mosimane has always stated that his signings this season; striker Jeremy Brockie, playmaker Gaston Sirino, winger Aubrey Ngoma and defender Rivaldo Coetzee, were made with these exits in mind, but the question is whether he will be able to replace quality with quality.
The team has been overly reliant on the goals and assists of Tau this season and his loss will be massive. Sirino looks a fine player, but is yet to prove himself and at times looks troubled by the pace of the game.
Brockie is quality but has started his Sundowns career slowly and the longer that goes on, the more difficult it will be for him to pull back, while Ngoma has suffered with injury problems of late.
It is not as if Mosimane can look to the rest of the league for readymade replacements either, of the players available to him, there is not much in the way of quality out there.
He can look abroad again, but needs to be strategic as he is limited to signing five foreign players.
Mosimane will be all too aware of this and will surely have a plan, but it will not be easy - it hasn't been since first Zungu and the Dolly made Sundowns a good source of talent for European clubs.
The more successful they are, the more clubs will come knocking and Mosimane is likely to be in a perennial state of rebuilding his side, which makes creating a dynasty difficult.